Candle, sorry to come off as a smartass. I was sincerely curious as to your "angle" with the original post. Actually, I think you will get much...
Sorry I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I thought you were giving us "THE ONLY REMEDY" for our economic problems...If not, what is this...
So the Bush economic policies were working? I thought staying out of the way of American businesses large and small while running up huge deficits...
I was wondering the same. Is the OP trying to find a mentor, looking for someone to "invest" money with, trying to verify whether it is...
Hmm, since when do people back things up around here? Most of the posts here require the disclaimer "FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY".
Apparently no rich wildly successful option traders are present on the ET boards at this time. I'm actually somewhat surprised that not even any...
I hate to be a "gloom n doomer" but many of those jobs probably are gone forever (at least for workers in this country). Thanks to globalization,...
I'm not sure what kind of criteria you are looking at, but you could also check out Trade-ideas. Scottrade was allowing free access to the service...
individual investors as a group are probably the only worse market timers than mutual funds. Yes, funds by and large are buying or selling based...
Why wouldn't mutual funds be buying the market highs? They are competing with benchmarks, and if the S&P/Russell/Nasdaq etc. are moving higher,...
Ha, when I first saw the thread title, I thought it was going to be Bernie Williams' glove. That would actually be worth something.
Well done Chop (unless the parameters change again). Intuitively, it would make sense to bet the largest possible amount early that would still...
I think the first bet should be zero, but as has been pointed out, you can't wait until two heads and then go all or nothing (unless you don't...
I was thinking the same thing after my first crack at this. My problem scenario that always seemed to crush my system was: W W L L W Using...
wait, it's not quite that easy...if you bet 1/3 on 1st two flips, and split, 1 win/1 loss, you will be back to your initial $100, with only two...
bet 1/3 of your initial bankroll each of the first 4 flips. If you complete four flips w/out winning or losing, then you should be at $100, having...
I was also looking at XLI, GE is probably the largest holding in that ETF, but due to the large financial component in GE, the correlation...
I used to trade GE quite a lot; it didn't seem to correlate very well with anything. You could check market-topology.com for some possible ideas....
Anaconda, you are correct. No way market makers (or probably anyone who can afford a seat on the exchange) get hit with this tax. Therefore, the...
Its funny how the proponents of these tax ideas all seem to call the .25 or .5% rates "insignificant", considering that the interest rates paid by...
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